Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-09-17
LIVING ON A DIME A DAY.
II can be DONE. and Perhaps &c would
be Better il More People Did ft.

be Better il More People Did it.
| From the Richmond (va) Dispatch.
At the gathering OF scientists In Columbia Col
lege learned professor fascinated his superintel
! lectual hearers by telling them that laborfng
| man needs daily one-fourth pound of proteine
! one-fourth pound fat, and a pound OF carbo-
! hydrates" to keep him well and strong II the
notwithstanding aborer goes to the store for bis
| four ounces OF proteine his experiment viii
| scarcely increase his faith In the marketing
knowledge Of scientists. What the laborer and
| what most OF Us need more than technical ESSAYS
| on the physiological and Fecundary Eco nomy Of
| Food Is plain talk about sensible feeding and
/ economical marketing.
"Bow to live and thrive On O dime per day. may
stand as the text for this talk 1t certainly can bt
| done, and, though the experiment may be uDin
vitng IL is certain that good health is nearer akr
| to the simplest diet than to the costliest
Now as TO the laboring man and his protetna
Tell him that three-fourths Of his weight Is water
and that TO restore the days waste he has to take
food, three-fourths OF which must be water, apd
making substances, he will understand the cas-
better. Give him a table OF foods analyzed &c
show Just now much heat-giving, flesh-forming
and mineral matter there Is in each food and ms
will soon take as deep an interest in what he eats
because or Its worth to him as because OF it's teste
When he finds out-as he can In half an hour
tnat only tWenty-iour parts In every one hundred
OF butchers meat count as flesh inforners the
rest being water, but that from saventy-f1ye nc
ninety parts out or every one hundred in dried
peas beans, oat and wheat meals and cheese are
nutritious and only ten to twenty-five parts waste
water, ne from that moment begins to use his
common sense In feeding as ne does In earning his
living. The popular rule is: Never paw any heed
to the feeding value OF our diet let US cultivate
gorl0uS ignorance OF the purpose of foods, and go
IN might anu main for palate-ticklerS and devil
take The dyspepsia. Pity he doesn't.
JuSt TACT or two as appetizers. The great Pen
ihsuiar ana oriental Up. and o. Steamship Com
pany employ East Indian coolies to do the hardest
work on their steamers because they are stronger
healthier, and stand the climate better than Eng
lShmen, and because-not being meat eaters
thelr diet costs only six cents per day. There are
miners In the English coal pits, the hardest work.
ers In the land, who have not eaten any kind Of
meat Tor years. l am not vegetarian, because
nanker after the fle,hpOts and their savory odors
cast 4 spell over my innocent soul; yet expert
mented for one whole year without tasting flesh
or gravy In any form, and all the time my heath
was perfect and my weight Increased The dock
porters or ConstantinOpie carry heavier burdens
two hundred and iifty pounds and upward-n,ore
easily than the labOrers of England and America
yet their main diet is bread and figs, and they are
teetOtal and vegetarian. The labOrerS In spain
I'VE CHIEFLY on bread and onions, and are marvel
ously strong.
The flesh-and blood superstition is quite as base
less IN diet as in theology, horse Is almost as
legged man, and they both have the same internal
machinery; the one eats beef and enjoys dyspcp-
sia, the other avoids IL and fOurishes. Ten cents
worth OF wheat, oatmeal rice, fruits buttermIlls
enable man to do his ordinary days work at
1cdSU as we'll any Other assortment OF foods lp
can buy for q dollar.
What would be good diet for those who do not
need TO study their purses, yet who would like q
simple, healthy and enjoyable dietary? TO such I
would say drop the heavy meat breakfast right
away Not that meat is bad, but 1t IS not the best
to start the day on: II disJends the stomach, In
dlSpoSeS us for head-work and often leads 10 that
other downright miScheyOuS stupidity, the IL
O'clock beer or cocktail. The second evil is taken
TO cure the first. as If two black eyes are better
than one. Bread mot the spoiled white stun but
the natural dark-cOlored wheat, as ground) tea or
cocoa, eggs, and the hundred and one nOn-fieSh
dishes, with little fish, and as much fruit as you
like that's model meal, as experience will
prove
Talking Of fish, the more the better Pound for
pound IL is as nutritious as flesh though IL doesn't
SEEN TO I'LL Us so fully, and its chemical value Is
lar ABOVE that OF meats. When have extra hard
brain Work TO do say an average or twelve four
teen hours Tor two or three weeks at q stretch.
Knock OH meats entirely and eat all the fish can
Result, perfect health and strength and no head
aches.
For dinner, fish, soups q am not excluding meat.
though soups can be made without it that taste
just the same and are quite as good every way
puddings, dessert. II any one cares to prove for
himself how little the flesh dishes dinner table
courses beginning with the fruit, then cheese and
crackers, the buildings, dc. i warrant he will
turn up his nose at the meat when he comes to 1t,
and he won't miss 1t the least.
knew an eminent lady who for forty years had
never tasted meat She was marvel of mental
ana physical strength. Another author friend
Kept his health and his average weight Of 16O
pounds On diet that never included meat the
average cost OF his food being only six cents per
day. Another, weli-known literary man, who
looked as beefy as q butcher was when last met
bin, In his eighth year Of strict abstinence from
flesh Another friend, a hard literary worker, has
looks too shrtvelled up to be champion speci-
men.